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26 thInternational IATEFL Slovenia Conference 20197th - 10th
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Editorial
In many countries, including the EU, women are the predominant
gender in education, especially in primary and secondary schools.
This is why it is strange to see that conference plenaries are so
predominantly a male thing. Surely there must be great women out
there who can be great as plenary speakers, not because they are
women, but because they are worthy of our time and attention. So we
embarked on the mission of finding them, keep-ing in mind they do
not necessarily come only from the UK. We are more than proud of
our selection of women, young and old, native and nonnative
speakers, who are all equipped with a set of skills and knowledge
to help you learn and understand that you, me, all of us are good
enough, if we keep on learning, developing, experimenting,
connecting, sharing and being proud of who we are. We hope they
manage to empower you personally and education in general as our
title suggests.
But we want to empower you in many other ways as well during
this con-ference. We hope you take your time for coffee with
friends, for pampering in thermal waters and let go of all your
worries during our social events.
In order to help you introduce novelty and different approaches
into your work after the conference, this year’s conference gift is
as basic as it gets. We all know that our best lessons have often
happened when we have the least resources at hand and we let our
knowledge and skills really come to the forefront. You will be able
to find some ideas in the accompanying leaf-let, but we are
confident that you can come up with many more besides.
Knowledge is a familiar concept. Most people know how to obtain
it, yet few really understand how hard it can be to grant this gift
to others. What rests on the shoulders of teachers might even be
harder than that. While pre-senting in front of thirty-something
minds in a full classroom it remains an important duty that we feed
the thirst for curiosity as well as try to motivate those who have
zero desire to learn. Through research we have realised a lot of
students learn the most from teachers that they can both admire and
appreciate. This conference serves to get you closer to that goal
and strives to improve the efficacy of your efforts the next time
you stand in front of curious minds yearning for new
information.
Contents
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Conference programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Conference abstracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Turistična agencija TWIN se s kulturno-izobraževalnimi potovanji
ukvarja že 20. leto. Ker v Veliko Britanijo potujemo pogosteje kot
večina ostalih slovenskih organizatorjev potovanj, ponujamo odlično
in preverjeno izvedbo. Naše cene tudi že vključujejo javni prevoz
in obvezne vstopnine. Cene so odvisne predvsem od termina odhoda in
vaše fleksibilnosti pri odhodu.
Zakaj s Twin-om v London:Pogosti in redni, zagotovljeni odhodi v
London. Twin organizira šolska potovanja v London že 20 let, v
povprečju imamo na mesec vsaj 3 zagotovljene odhode v London.
Odlično vodstvo. Pri Twinu se zavedamo, da je odlično poznavanje
običajev in turističnih znamenitosti Londončanov le prvi korak k
odlični izvedbi. Naši vodniki imajo dolgoletne izkušnje pri vodenju
šolske mladine, zato odlično poznajo vse sestavine programa, saj
jih sami pripravljajo. Tudi zato je vodenje/izvedba toliko bolj
fleksibilna glede na želje skupine. Naj še omenimo, da boste v
Sloveniji težko našli vodnike, ki v London vodijo tako pogosto kot
Twinovi vodniki.
Nastanitev, ki presega običajno turistično kategorijo. Pri Twinu
se zavedamo, da je dober spanec pomembna sestavina izleta. Vsi naši
hoteli so hoteli s 3* in pri večini udeležencev presežejo njihova
pričakovanja. Kot specia list za London lahko zagotovimo vsaj en
bogat angleški zajtrk (običajnih zajtrki v Londonu so skromni
kontinentalni).
Nikoli naknadno ne spreminjamo pogojev. Naša cena je vedno znana
že ob prijavi in se nikoli ne spremeni zaradi spremembe cen
dobaviteljev, goriva oz letalskega prevoznika.
Vedno ponudimo kakšno dodatno storitev – brezplačno. S program
zagotavljamo minimalni obseg storitev oz. ogledov, vendar nikoli ne
izvedemo samo minimalnega obsega – vedno, pri vsaki skupini dodamo
nekaj po sebnega, kar ni zapisano v programu. Prav tako v naših
programih nikoli ne zapišemo “če bo čas dopuščal”, kajti vse naše
programe vedno v celoti izvedemo. In ker si London zelo pogosto
ogledujemo, poznamo tudi optimalno zaporedje ogledov brez
nepotrebnega hitenja.
Vsaj 183 osnovnih in srednjih šol je že potovalo z nami. Z nami
zelo malo šol potuje samo enkrat. Če želite neobvezujoče
vzpostaviti stik z organizatorjem na eni od šol, ki je že potovala
z nami, vam bomo z veseljem posredovali kontakt.
Ponujamo 3-dnevni program, kjer za izvedbo ni potrebno
delovnika.
Več informacij na www.twintur.com ali na 040 187 830ali v
poslovalnici na Zemljemerski ulici 12 v Ljubjani.
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Osmisliti učenje je osnovna naloga vsakega učitelja in ni
boljšega načina, kako priljubiti angleščino, od tega, da učence
popelješ po svetu. V današnjih časih to ni enostavno. Šole in
učitelji se bojijo odgovornosti, mnogi starši pa ne zmorejo ali
znajo otrok odpeljati sami. Ni bilo lahko pred 15 leti prvič sesti
na avtobus in se podati z agencijo, o kateri nismo vedeli ničesar,
na večdnevno potovanje v Veliko Britanijo. Bilo nas je strah pred
odhodom, a takoj ko smo se podali na pot, smo vedeli, da je bila
odločitev prava.
Po tistem, ko smo prvič potovali s TWinom, smo vedeli, da nas ne
bo več strah. Lani smo že desetič odkrivali Evropo in vsakič smo se
vrnili ne samo zadovoljni, ampak tudi hvaležni za TWinovo
strokovnost, prijaznost, ustrežljivost ... Hvaležni smo celotni
ekipi in nikoli ne bi izbrala druge agencije, saj sem prepričana,
da niti cenovno niti strokovno potovanja ne bi mogla biti ugodneje
in bolje izpeljana.
Ta ekskurzija je postala stalna praksa naše šole in učenci komaj
čakajo, da bodo dovolj stari, da se je bodo lahko udeležili. Nam,
spremljevalcem, pa je v neizmerno veselje, ko jih opazujemo, kako
polni vtisov in lepih doživetij še dolgo pripovedujejo o
potovanju.
Ksenija Tripkovič, OŠ Selnica ob Dravi
Zemljemerska ulica 121000 LjubljanaTel.: 01 280 28 20,040 187
830e-pošta: [email protected]
TWin odlični izleti!
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AcknowledgmentsWe would like to give special thanks to the
following:
US Embassy LjubljanaRegional English Language Office
Belgrade
Express publishingRokus Klett
English in actionPilgrims
MM publishingDZSOUP
Hamilton houseIntegral EDU
Bang the Button gamesSOL
The BridgeTwin
Botanični vrt UMFranck Zagreb
Kmetijska zadruga Selnica ob DraviKolinska
Kolosej LjubljanaKopur
Lutkovno gledališčeMinicityPalma
Port Designs SlovenijaJGZ Brdo
Skupina Orehov GajRadenska
Programme Changes
& Cancellations
Changes made after the
printing of this Confere
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Programme will be disp
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changes to the conferen
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cancellations.
RegistrationOpening TimesThursday 7
th March 14.00 – 19.00
Friday 8th March 08.00 – 0
9.00
Saturday 9th March 08.00 – 0
9.00
Upon registration you have received the
conference package and name badge. Ple
ase
wear the badge at all times. Your name b
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entitles you to access all sessions, the ex
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area and the social programme on the da
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registered for.
Please leave the plastic name tags at the
registration desk before leaving so they
can
be reused next year.
Raffle We’ll have a simple quiz again Drawing will take place in
the plenary room during the last 10 minutes of the afternoon coffee
break. You have to be present to win. The main raffle will take
place on Saturday, before social evening.
Coffee BreaksCoffee and tea included in the registration fee
will be served during the thirty-minute morning and afternoon
breaks. The coffee/tea stands will be located in the exhibition
area.Lunch Break
There will be a one-hour break at lunchtime. Lunch is available
in the hotel restaurant or in the hotel bar, where you can get some
light refreshments.
Members of the Organising Committee for the ConferenceSandra
Vida, Janja Čolić, Jasna Šebez,Polona Šivec, Nataša Meh, Alenka
Tratnik, Dragana Stegić, Helena Žnidaršič Seme, Metka Lovrin, Lea
Koler, Maša Kolenko
Talking stick:
Make your own talking st
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student helpers' desk and
let your creative side
go wild. Materials provided
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Q&A Please make sure you get to plenaries on time as it
won't be possible to get in later. If you have questions for any of
the speakers, please feel free to stop them outside of the
sessions, this is what we are all here for.
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Friday, 8th March 2019
TIME AUDIENCE ROOM
7.00 – 7.30 Morning gymnastics in the pool
8.30 – 8.50 Alenka BičaničThere Is Such a Thing as a Free
Lunch
all Plenary hall
Vera Stoilov SpasovaEscaping the Classroom? No Way!
all Zala 1
Volodja ŠiškovičThe Reading Notebook (How to Encourage Students
to Read)
sec Zala 2
Nataša ŠiftarTalented Pupils at English Classes
prim 2nd floor
Polona CimermanGreen Is the New Black
all 3rd floor
8.50 – 9.00 Welcome, Changes etc.
9.00 – 10.00 OPENING PLENARY: Dorothy ZemachUsing Metaphor for
Teaching and Learning
Plenary hall
10.30 – 11.00 Dorothy ZemachQ&A
Plenary hall
Vesna Šušnica IlcThe Challenges in an ESP Classroom
sec Zala 1
Bojan KašubaGame On, Level Up
prim Zala 2
Nada ĐukićCritical Thinking in Practice
all 2nd floor
Gašper PernekHow to Die in the Victorian Style
sec 3rd floor
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 – 12.15 Sophia MavridiIt’s Showtime! Filmmaking in the
Classroom
all Plenary hall
Jet HienschLanguage Games to Get Those Kids Talking
all Zala 1
Maureen McGarveyTeams – Do They Work?
all Zala 2
Bojana MihelačJoin The Journey!
comm 2nd floor
Jelena Ruzic PetrovicGames in IELTS Preparation
sec 3rd floor
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commercial presentation, ws = workshop, T = talk
POETRY COMPETITION
As a part of our 2019 conference, we are organizing a poetry
competition.
All participants of the conference are invited to enter the
competition with poems written prior or during the conference.
The best three poems will win prizes.
The winners will be announced on Sunday, after the main
plenary.
Each participant may submit one original poem based on the theme
of our conference and/or its title, written in English. An
independent jury
of 3 participants will be appointed on the first day of the
conference.
Please collect a code when you submit your poem at the
registration desk and write this on your entry instead of your
name. Leave your poem
at the registration desk by 6 pm on Saturday.
Thursday, 7th March 2019
TIME AUDIENCE ROOM
14.00 – 19.00 Registration of the participants
16.30 A guided tour of the programme - with insider tips
17.00 – 17.45 Gordana Bujanić Tretinjak, Lidija BranilovićSEN
Pupils in Primary and Secondary Schools
all Plenary hall
Nataša Meh At the Top of My Voice
all Zala 1
Metka Lovrin The Buzzing Classroom
prim Zala 2
Lea KolerCreative Writing Moments
all 2nd floor
Helena MiklavčičCankar and English Matura Authors – Empowering
Students to Integrate Knowledge
sec 3rd floor
18.00 – 19.00 PLENARY Dorothy ZemachHasn’t That Book Already
Been Written?
Plenary hall
19.00 – 20.00 Dinner
20.00 – 20.30 Official opening of the conference Plenary
hall
20.30 – 22.00 International Get to Know Each Other Evening
Plenary hall
22.00 – 24.00 Chilling in the swimming pool (Swimming pool will
be open until midnight just for the IATEFL Slovenia conference
participants.)
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15.45 – 16.15 Enghy SáronJazz Chants for Real!
all Plenary hall
Jean LinehanHelp! I Have a Huge Class. Maximizing Student
Engagement
all Zala 1
Barbara DvornikIt’s Good to be Bad
all Zala 2
Vesna DobrilaMaking the Most of Additional Lessons
prim 2nd floor
Sandra HorvatićLet’s Get Creative – ICT in ELT
sec 3rd floor
16.15 – 16.45 Coffee break + raffle!
17.00 – 18.00 PLENARY: Lynda Steyne EmPowerEd
Plenary hall
18.15 – 19.00 Adriana BeletićInteractive Literature
all Plenary hall
Tanja OžboltThe Use of Mobile Gadgets in Cooperative
Learning
all Zala 1
Petra ŽerovnikLearning Stations in the Foreign Language
Classroom
prim Zala 2
Mirta Kos Kolobarić, Ivana CindrićBenefits of Action Research in
Our Own Teaching Practice
sec 2nd floor
Jana MlakarTheatre Etiquette
sec, 30 min 3rd floor
19.00 – 21.00 Dinner
21.00 – 23.00 Social evening – EmpowerED Super 80’s disco party
Zala
TIME AUDIENCE ROOM
12.30 – 13.15 Mojca BelakBits of British Culture Presented
Through Mobile Learning
all Plenary hall
Nicola EppsEiA Fun and Practical Activities to Motivate your
Students
all Zala 1
Claudia MolnárCreating Community Classrooms
all Zala 2
Jerry BloemsmaUsing the 21st Century Skills to Teach Grammar
all 2nd floor
Barbara Majcenovič Kline, Kirsten Hempkin, Melita Koletnik A
Project-based Approach to Learning for Life
all 3rd floor
Sandra Vida, Janja ČolićSurviving vocational school
comm 4th floor
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 14.30 Tery LemanisCLIL, Culture and 21st Century Skills
in the EFL Classroom
all Plenary hall
Petra Krhlanko“Memeback” – When a Teacher’s Feedback Becomes
Visually Stimulating
sec Zala 1
Janja AndroićGamify Your Lessons With Quizizz
all Zala 2
Ana GalacClass Management - a Few Tips on How to Get Your
Students' Attention
all 2nd floor
Nataša GrčarEducating the Heart
prim 3rd floor
14.45 – 15.30 Yoga session with Nicola Epps gym
14.45 – 15.30 Kristy KorsDeveloping Communicative Language
Competence
all Plenary hall
Colin VandergraafAssembling Skill Sets and Constructing Roadmaps
for Future ESP Practitioners
all, ESP Zala 1
Natalie LackovicBilingual Science Can Be Fun With
all Zala 2
Martin JelinekWhatever You Say, Say It Right
all 2nd floor
Katja KranjecBlended Learning in Practice
all 3rd floor
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Saturday, 9th March 2019
TIME AUDIENCE ROOM
8.30 – 8.50 Anže PerneIf You Were an Elephant or Authentic
Reading (For Pleasure)
sec Plenary hall
Maja ŠtekovicWinning eTwinning Projects
sec Zala 1
Martina KobalYour Reading Assignment, Your Choice!
sec Zala 2
Marija PavlovičEmpowered = Encouraged
yl 2nd floor
Mojca KosiIt's Neither Black nor White - It's Grey!
sec 3rd floor
9.00 – 10.00 PLENARY: Mojca Belak, PilgrimsTeachers, Students,
and Total Behaviour
Plenary hall
10.15 – 11.00 Jen MacArthurTeaching Visual Literacy to Develop
Critical Thinking Skills
all Plenary hall
Milan MandeljcUnattached Speaking
all Zala 1
Lubos MasarykDiscovery Grammar Learning
sec Zala 2
Ajda Erjavec BartoljThe Line Between Burning Passion for
Teaching and Teacher Burnout
all 2nd floor
Dragica ZdraveskaTeaching for change
all 3rd floor
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 – 12.15 Dorothy ZemachGuilty Secrets: Some Unfashionable
but Effective Teaching Techniques
all Plenary hall
Frank PrescottIt’s good to talk: Using negotiation in the
classroom
all Zala 1
Sandra Kozorog- KošutaWaltzing With Matilda And Cultural
Heritage
all Zala 2
Klavdija Krempl SlanaEmpowering Students by Using Ted Talks
all 2nd floor
Ema Ramot, Andreja VidmarEmpowered by Trending News
sec 3rd floor
12.30 – 13.30 AGM 2nd floor
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch Break
13.30 Guided walk of Topolšica(please sign up at the reception
desk on Friday)
TIME AUDIENCE ROOM
14.00 – 14.45 Uwe PohlPeople Worth Listening To: How to Make the
Most of Voices on the Web
all Plenary hall
Danny SinghGibberish - A Powerful Communication Tool in the
Classroom
all Zala 1
Maks PavlicaHow to Write About Something You Know Nothing
About
sec Zala 2
Beatrix PriceContinuing Professional Development for the
Twenty-first Century English Teacher
all 2nd floor
Anita JokićPower of Women
all 3rd floor
15.00 – 15.45 Daniel StarskiSilent Lesson
all Plenary hall
Karen WhiteEmpower Your Students by Increasing Their Bank of
Vocabulary
all Zala 1
Milica VojvodićThe Magic of Roald Dahl in the ESL Classroom
yl, prim Zala 2
Helena MiklavčičPower Games in Golding’s The Lord of the
Flies
sec 2nd floor
Nora Tartsay NemethVirtual Reality and Augmented Reality in the
Classroom
all 3rd floor
16.00 – 16.30 Beth BaumgartnerAccommodating Students with
Special Needs
all Plenary hall
Oksana VakhilMovement and Art as a Fantastic Tool to Learn
English
yl, prim, 60 min
Zala 1
Marjetka PfajfarEnglish Lessons Promoting Meaningful
Lifestyles
all Zala 2
Andreja MiklušIt’s all about the money, or is it?
sec 2nd floor
Leopoldina Poli Hočevar EveVisible Thinking Routines in Thinking
Classrooms
prim 3rd floor
16.30 – 17.00 Coffee break + raffle!
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17.00 – 18.00 PLENARY: Sophia Mavridi Digital literacies and the
new digital divide
Plenary hall
18.15 – 18.45 Alan ParadižCan can?
sec Plenary hall
Marija Rus Cooperation of a Kindergarten Teacher with a
Librarian
yl Zala 1
Katona Laszlo The Power of Encouragement - How to Cope with the
Education of Students with Difficulties
all Zala 2
Urška Petrevčič Successful Language Learners and their Language
Learning Strategies
all 2nd floor
18.30 – 19.30 Paraffin bath for your hands until 19.30. Bring a
towel! 3rd floor
19.15 – 20.30 Dinner
20.30 – 23.00 Social evening - Lip Sync BattleRaffle of main
prizes
Plenary hall
Sunday, 10th March 2019
TIME AUDIENCE ROOM
9.00 – 9.45 CLOSING PLENARY: Maureen McGarveyThe ABC of Teacher
Development
Plenary hall
10.00 – 11.00 Dorothy Zemach: Stories from the conference: what
are we taking away
Plenary hall
Poetry competiton announcement Plenary hall
11.10 – 11.30 Feedback session Plenary hall
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Thursday, 7th March 2019
17.00 – 17.45
Gordana Bujanić Tretinjak, Lidija BranilovićSEN Pupils in
Primary and Secondary Schools
Help your SEN pupils by adapting material. A few tried out tips
and tricks to help you make your materials closer to their needs
and abilities. Participants will be shown some examples from the
classrooms, as well as be given some pointers on how to adapt their
material for SEN pupils.
Nataša MehAt the Top of My Voice
When I am asked what tools teachers need at their job I usually
think of a blackboard and some chalk. Now-adays I would also say I
cannot do without a computer and a wi-fi connection. I had never
thought about voice being my tool, until I lost it and was unable
to work for sometime. I will talk about vocal hygiene and how to
take care of your voice. You will get advice on classroom
management without using your voice and what you can do if you have
problems with your voice.
Metka LovrinThe Buzzing Classroom
Classrooms are loud and restless — much like beehives. But every
beehive has a pattern in its seemingly erratic behaviour. The aim
of this workshop is to equip teachers — our queen bees of the
classroom — with group work activities and ideas that manage
students with engaging hands-on projects while camouflaging
textwork. Let’s get stuck in.
Lea KolerCreative Writing Moments Take a few moments off your
busy schedule and think about yourself for a change. This workshop
will aim to give you a few ideas, prompts and exercises for your
own creative writing, so bring your pen and your creativity. The
focus will be on fiction, but the ideas are transferable to
non-fiction writing as well.
Helena MiklavčičCankar and English Matura Authors – Empowering
Students to Integrate Knowledge I am going to present an
interdisciplinary workshop which was carried out to honour the
great Slovenian writer – Ivan Cankar. As 2018 was declared to be
Cankar’s Year by the Slovenian Government, it seemed rel-evant to
establish a powerful connection between Cankar, Yeats and Wilde.
Students were thus empowered to appreciate Slovenian culture by
placing it into a wider context.
18.00 - 19.00
PLENARYDorothy Zemach
Dorothy Zemach is an author, editor, teacher, and teacher
trainer in the field of English Language Teaching (ELT). She taught
English, French, and Japanese for over 20 years in Asia, Africa,
and the US. She currently writes and edits English language
teaching materials and textbooks, and conduct teacher training
workshops. Her areas of spe-cialty and interest include teaching
writing, teaching reading, business English, aca-demic English,
testing, and humor. She is a frequent plenary speaker at
international conferences, and a regular blogger for Teacher Talk
at Azar Grammar.
Hasn’t That Book Already Been Written? Do you remember learning
dialogues like this?
A: What is this?B: It is a cigarette.A: And this? Is this a
cigarette?B: No, it isn’t. It’s a horse.
This humorous presentation (with a serious point) takes a look
at the evolution of English language teaching textbooks. We laugh
at the old examples – but why? At the time those books were
written, people believed they were useful. If we laugh now, it is
because something we believe about teaching and learning languages
has changed. This plenary guides audience members to articulate
what they do (and do not) believe about teaching, and then figure
out how to apply those insights to materials they select or create
for their own classes.
Friday, 8th March 2019
8.30 - 8.50
Alenka BičaničThere Is Such a Thing as a Free Lunch The main
goal of this talk is to present the cooking workshops that have
become traditional at our school with learners of English and
Spanish. The workshop sprang from the idea of having extra
motivation and/or reward for my learners. It provides a way to
escape the confines of a classroom, cooperate with other workers at
school and to experience the culinary culture of the language
learnt first-hand.
Vera Stoilov SpasovaEscaping the Classroom? No Way! Are your
students hard to motivate? If they had the chance, would they
escape the classroom as soon as they could? They probably consider
themselves as digital natives and believe that there isn’t much you
could show them to interest them, right? By using these digital
escape rooms, they won’t even think about leaving the
classroom.
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Volodja ŠiškovičThe Reading Notebook (How to Encourage Students
to Read) Faced with fear that his students were not good enough
readers, this teacher has devised a devious plan that would
encourage his students to read more, understand what they have read
better, learn useful things in the process, improve their
vocabulary, and, last but not least, involve themselves more
actively in oral grad-ing. This is what he now does.
Nataša ŠiftarEmpowered Talented Pupils at English Classes The
presentation focuses on working with talented students in English
language classes and provides an in-sight into the activities that
have proven to be motivational for talented students. At the same
time, it shows the carrying out of similar activities by
“untalented” pupils, and thus raises the question of the adequacy
of the methodology of discovering talents in our school system.
Polona CimermanGreen Is the New Black The aim of the workshop is
to demonstrate how to cover the classic (and sometimes boring) ELT
textbook topic of the environment from a slightly different point
of view. I wanted my students to go beyond the cli-chés and explore
the often-overlooked impact that clothes and fashion industry have
on our planet.
9.00 – 10.00
PLENARY Dorothy Zemach
Using Metaphor for Teaching and Learning To go hand-in-hand with
a conference on teaching and learning English, the presenter
invites participants to examine something in their lives that is
entirely different; and through this examination to draw relevant
metaphorical conclusions about teaching and learning.In their
groundbreaking Metaphors We Live By, Philosopher Mark Johnson and
linguist George Lakoff call metaphor “unavoidable, ubiquitous, and
mostly unconscious,” claiming that “[w]e live our lives on the
basis of inferences we derive via metaphor” (1980). The presenter
will share insights gained from years of musical study and
performance and show how examining and understanding this
experience carries knowledge over into her linguistic and teaching
career. A music student, after all, like a language student, must
listen, repeat, practice patterns and drills, learn theory,
rehearse alone and with others, and perform with meaning and
passion in order to communicate. Musical examples will highlight
the presentation.
10.30 – 11.00
Vesna Šušnica IlcThe Challenges in an ESP Classroom As an ESP
language teacher in technical secondary school I am constantly
engaged with different profession-al fields and time restrictions.
I decided to overcome these challenges by incorporating the
elements of the Formative Assessment into my teaching practice. The
aim of my talk is to present some of my mostly used vocabulary
tasks and discuss their adaptations in classroom situations.
Bojan KašubaGame On, Level Up The presentation will resemble a
game quiz. In a series of question-task segments, participants will
get to know the applications Kahoot and Baamboozle. The
applications will be presented in a simplified but mean-ingful
manner to ensure every participant will be able to use and create
game-based quizzes as well as en-gage students to create and play
their own games.
Nada ĐukićCritical Thinking in Practice It is essential to know
how our brain works, so that we can stimulate it appropriately when
we want our stu-dents to learn effectively or to achieve desired
outcomes. The tools of formative assessment help students to use
higher order thinking and enable them to be independent, engaged
and creative in their learning. We teachers facilitate the learning
process.
Gašper PernekHow to Die in the Victorian Style This talk deals
with one of the ways Chemistry and English could be
cross-curricularly linked. The Victorian era was a period of many
inventions, but with them many dangers appeared in people’s
everyday lives. After an introduction, a class that was executed in
one of the second years will be presented.
11.30 – 12.15
Sophia MavridiIt’s Showtime! Filmmaking in the classroom Are you
looking for exciting and student-centred ways to make your teaching
more engaging? Do you want to use technology in a pedagogically
sound way to boost your students’ media literacies and language
learning? Then join this hands-on session and learn how to design
simple filmmaking projects for your students. Just bring in your
creativity and mobile device.
Jet HienschLanguage Games to Get Those Kids Talking A short
introduction with a PowerPoint presentation that will point out the
benefits of the use of games in English class, especially for
teachers that value the practice of the oral skills, followed by
actually playing some games. Nothing better than experiencing it
yourself!
Maureen McGarveyTeams – Do They Work? This session will explore
what teams are and how they work. We will look at stages of team
formation, and consider how to work through the different stages.
We will consider the differences between teams and working groups,
and which configuration is more appropriate in our contexts. We
will also discuss steps we can take when teams get stuck.
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Bojana MihelačJoin The Journey! Vibrant lessons that spark your
students’ curiosity, methodology you can rely on, development of
life skills and seamless transition from lower primary to upper
primary may sound challenging to achieve. Mission impossible? By no
means.
Jelena Ruzic PetrovicGames in IELTS Preparation This workshop
aims to present a variety of games for IELTS preparation for each
part of the test. Firstly, I will give an overview of the exam,
with particular focus on aspects that cause difficulties for
students. Then, I will introduce games for developing students’
creativity, speed and critical thinking. The aforementioned
activities can aid teachers in both individual and group
context.
12.30 – 13.15
Mojca BelakBits of British Culture Presented Through Mobile
Learning This culture-based Kahoot quiz can be used in class on
occasions when motivation is low and students’ atten-tion span
short. It consists of various questions with correct answers that
look wrong, and incorrect answers that seem right. While students
try to select the correct answers, the teacher’s secret aim is to
catch the class unawares and ‘sell’ them the wrong ones. Come and
see if you can avoid the traps I set for you, and if you are not
yet familiar with Kahoot, learn how it works.
Nicola EppsEiA Fun and Practical Activities to Motivate your
Students This workshop will run through some short activities to
get your students speaking. The activities will give an insight
into the style of teaching we offer at English in Action and would
cover various topics such as warmers, fillers, teaching vocabulary
and teaching grammar in a communicative way. The workshop will be
fun and interactive!
Claudia MolnárCreating Community Classrooms Community classrooms
foster greater student engagement and authentic learning
environments. During this interactive workshop we shall be looking
at ways in which we can develop not only the individual but also
the group as a whole. Learners with special educational needs are
often left behind, especially those with dyslexia and attention
deficit disorders. Can we engage them too? Yes!
Jerry BloemsmaUsing the 21st Century Skills to Teach Grammar One
of the latest developments in ELT is the 21st century skills.
Although the main aim is to prepare the students for their future,
there are also many benefits when it comes to language learning. In
this workshop we will have a look at what these skills are, how
they can help learners, especially when it comes to understanding
grammar.
Barbara Majcenovič Kline, Kirsten Hempkin, Melita KoletnikA
Project-based Approach to Learning for Life
It is often difficult to engage learners of English (or any
other foreign language) in “outside the classroom” ac-tivities that
provide them with real-life experience as well as practical
knowledge and skills. A project-based approach can be enormously
beneficial in addressing this issue: project participants have the
opportunity to learn by means of researching, translating,
proof-reading, acquiring field-related terminology, and more. They
can work individually, in pairs or smaller groups, cooperate with
each other and with their teachers – who act as pedagogical mentors
– and other partners involved in the project. Learners also acquire
other competences that they might find useful in their future work
environment and that are also attractive to potential
employers.
Sandra Vida, Janja ČolićSurviving Vocational School This will be
a presentation of the new coursebook for vocational schools,
highlighting what is new and how the book can foster differentiated
teaching with a focus on the content, relevant for vocational
students. You will get insider tips from the authors and answers to
your questions. A new feature are also holistic tests, with
listening and reading activities, appropriate for their knowledge
level and interests.
14.00 - 14.30
Tery LemanisCLIL, Culture and 21st Century Skills in the EFL
Classroom Students need 21st-century skills and if not developed
properly, they won’t be prepared for college and work. But what are
21st century skills and who decides which skills are most
important? In this session, we will look at skills vital to the
classroom and examples of exercises that promote them.
Petra Krhlanko“Memeback” – When a Teacher’s Feedback Becomes
Visually Stimulating Correcting students’ compositions can get
quite frustrating for students as well as teachers. In an attempt
to avoid committing a first-degree murder of students’ piece of
writing with the mighty red pen, I use memes, visual stimuli
well-known to teenagers, to make my feedback more enjoyable for all
involved as well as more efficient at developing critical
thinking.
Janja AndroićGamify Your Lessons With Quizizz Do you find your
students staring through the window and you repeating your
questions because students are dreaming and not paying attention?
So how can you keep them engaged and motivated? Quizizz is a fun
and engaging tool to spice up your lessons. It’s similar to Kahoot,
with a few key differences. Workshop at-tendees will learn about
main features of the app and try it out to experience it
first-hand. (BYOD)
Ana GalacClass Management - a Few Tips on How to Get Your
Students' Attention If we want to achieve our educational goals, we
have to get our students’ attention and make them do what we want
them to. In this workshop we will discuss several tips and recipes
that will help you achieve optimum working conditions. If you want
to know how to stop class interruptions, eating during lessons,
using mobile phones in class without permission come to the
workshop and together we will find the optimal solution.
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Nataša GrčarEducating the Heart In my career as an English
teacher I’ve learned that teachers have a rare privilege not only
to educate the mind, but also the heart. In my presentation I will
focus on classroom activities that teach pupils language skills and
at the same time enhance crucial moral values: loving yourself,
respect for others and appreciation for the planet we live on.
14.45 – 15.30
Kristy KorsDeveloping Communicative Language Competence It is
widely accepted that the goal of language teaching is
‘communicative language competence’. Competenc-es consist of the
essential skills, knowledge, attitudes and behaviour required for
effective performance of a real-world task or activity. The speaker
will concentrate on how to maximise the effectiveness of realistic
and meaningful input and suggest classroom techniques that will
enable this to be successfully turned into output.
Colin VandergraafAssembling Skill Sets and Constructing Roadmaps
for Future ESP Practitioners The demand for highly skilled ESP
practitioners continues to grow as the professional language needs
of Eng-lish learners become more nuanced. This workshop will
explore examples of how ESP practitioners have de-veloped their
professional skills. Distilling salient points from these examples
can lead to the development of a roadmap and recommended path for
the preparation and career development of future ESP
professionals.
Natalie LackovicBilingual Science Can Be Fun with CLIL! A
different, more engaging approach in teaching science and other
subjects in English to students, not only attending bilingual
programmes, using CLIL methodology that can help not only students,
but also their teachers.
Martin JelinekWhatever You Say, Say It Right “WHATEVER YOU SAY,
SAY IT RIGHT” is a set of questions, opening phrases, common ice
breakers and vo-cabulary used in 21st century. Our aim is to ease
the process of not only starting the conversation, but as well,
maintaining it, making a point, be heard and understood.. “WHATEVER
YOU SAY, SAY IT RIGHT” takes you through methodology and practical
examples of natural and cross-cultural acquisition of language
skills needed for a high-standard as well as an unbuttoned daily
communication. Plus much more of MARKET URSELF!
Katja KranjecBlended Learning in Practice The concept of blended
learning has been around for more than fifty years. There has been
a lot of research done in this field. However, very little has been
said about how it could be implemented into the language classroom.
If done properly, it can improve students’ engagement as well as
performance. This includes set-ting clear learning objectives
before the start of the course as well as the support of school
management. Blended learning enables students to become more
technology-savvy and responsible for their own learn-ing. It also
helps to enhance the skills that are crucial in the 21st century,
i.e. collaboration and group work. In the first part of my
presentation I would like to explain the concept of blended
learning and show how it could be utilised in the context of
English language teaching. In the second part various tools that
can be used to im-plement blended learning will be discussed (e.g.
how to create presentations, podcasts, videos, voice
recording).
15.45 - 16.15
Enghy SáronJazz Chants for Real! In the workshop I wish to
present a variety of jazz chants and their use based on my findings
while working with a group of B1 level 11th graders. After I
introduce the basics of jazz chanting, I will share my results then
the most loved and most useful chants to improve learners’
pronunciation skills.
Jean LinehanHelp! I Have a Huge Class. Maximizing Student
Engagement Student engagement is the key to learning. In our large
classes, sometimes it’s difficult to deliver lessons in which each
student connects and interacts with the material and content. In
this workshop, we will explore practical ways to maximize student
engagement, no matter age group, class size or content.
Barbara DvornikIt's Good to Be Bad Understanding our students
and yet stay demanding or challenging enough, practice empathy with
authority are all very nice concepts that can vanish as soon as
faced with the first real classroom full of students. This talk
explores how to maintain the tricky balance using your own personal
experience as a student in different life situations and not give
up hope.
Vesna DobrilaMaking the Most of Additional Lessons Additional
English lessons at school, intended for talented students, often
present a challenge for the teacher. The workshop will present some
real class experience to answer questions such as how to meet
students’ needs, how to keep them motivated for extra work, how to
combine traditional learning materials with IT, and how to fulfil
teacher’s expectations and the curriculum requirements.
Sandra HorvatićLet’s Get Creative – ICT in ELT Yes, I admit, I
am a huge fan and have been for many years. I feel ICT has been my
friend in plenty of my ven-tures to amuse and be amused, from a
scared user at the beginning to… well, perhaps just a little less
scared but nevertheless learning all the time. Come join me, you
may find your own rainbow!
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Jana MlakarTheatre Etiquette Accompanying students to any kind
of performance, especially a play, can be a nightmare. In order to
make it a more pleasant experience for all, I decided to prepare my
secondary school students for the event by focusing on attending a
Broadway show and comparing it to other types of public events.
Saturday, 9th March 2019
8.30 - 8.50
Anže PerneIf You Were an Elephant or Authentic Reading (For
Pleasure) What are authenticity and authentic reading? The talk
will first tackle this perpetual question and then focus on
authentic reading for B1/B2+ secondary learners. As part of their
oral assessment, the students are en-couraged to read authentic
texts and then discuss them with the teacher. Wondering about the
elephant in the title? You will learn more at the talk.
Maja ŠtekovicWinning eTwinning Projects eTwinning project-based
learning provides students with an authentic learning environment.
This pedagogi-cal approach enables the creation of meaningful
real-life situations, in which students use their own knowl-edge
and problem-solving skills. Such projects are suitable for
multilevel classes as they encourage team spirit among students as
well as provide them with an opportunity to facilitate intra- and
intercultural com-munication and collaboration.
Martina KobalYour Reading Assignment, Your Choice! Should
students have a choice in what they read and what tasks they
complete? What to do with a text to make reading fun and engaging?
This workshop will offer some suggestions of how you can assign an
article and still empower students with choice. It will also
provide you with a website for up-to-date news that is appropriate
for learners of all ages.
Marija PavlovičEmpowered = Encouraged In the presentation I am
going to give a few tips on how to deal with large classes so that
lessons are not teacher fronted and that the learners are
encouraged to use English in the classroom.
Mojca KosiIt's Neither Black nor White - It's Grey! Teenagers –
a wonderful group of know-it-alls with strong opinions on almost
everything. Sometimes, it can be difficult to challenge all of
their ideas and believes, but there is one tool that can do just
that: debate. The classic pro et contra debate is highly engaging
and fun, enabling students to understand that there are always two
sides to every story.
17.00 – 18.00
PLENARYLynda Steyne
Lynda (Lyn) Steyne is a South African born, American passport
holder who’s lived in Bra-tislava, Slovakia, longer than anywhere
else. She’s been an English language teacher for going on 30 years,
teaching students aged nine and up in public primary and secondary
schools, as well as at university. She’s served as deputy head of a
secondary school, bi-lingual programme coordinator, and teacher
trainer/mentor of incoming English teach-ers. Lyn has taught
academic writing, research skills, and English at both the
universi-ty and secondary school level, as well as short courses
for Slovak journalists. She’s the current (and founding) chair of
the Slovak Chamber of English Language Teachers (SCELT ).
EmPowerEd In this light-hearted plenary, Lyn will look at the
daily lives of teachers and some of the meaningful strategies they
can employ for survival (of both themselves and their
students).
18.15 – 19.00
Adriana BeletićInteractive Literature Have you ever faced the
challenge of motivating your students to enjoy historical facts or
literary excerpts? I have. And the materials (2 published volumes)
are packed full of exercises that combine reading, analyses,
quizzes, word games, illustration tasks, dramatizing, ready-to-use
tasks and activities, etc. all meant to in-trigue and motivate
students to interact and produce their own works.
Tanja OžboltThe Use of Mobile Gadgets in Cooperative Learning
The workshop explores the possibilities of using mobile gadgets
(tablets and smart phones) in cooperative learning. In a web quest
on Shakespeare QR codes lead to specific websites. The obtained
information is then shared within groups to complete the tasks in
the worksheet. For feedback and as a round-up, the groups compete
in a Kahoot quiz.
Petra ŽerovnikLearning Stations in the Foreign Language
Classroom Learning stations or learning centres are by definition
classroom areas designed for learning in small groups. A particular
area offers materials and activities that enable pupils to
independently learn and revise specific skill or vocabulary. One
lesson where learning stations are used will be presented in my
workshop.
Mirta Kos Kolobarić, Ivana CindrićBenefits of Action Research in
Our Own Teaching Practice An important component of the advanced
level English test in Matura exam is a for-and-against essay.
De-spite preparations, students show weakness in essay-writing
skills. The action research which was carried out aimed to discover
what type of feedback students find useful and motivating, if
metalinguistic notes and student-teacher conferencing influence
their language skill and what types of errors are repeated.
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Ajda Erjavec BartoljThe Line Between Burning Passion for
Teaching and Teacher Burnout Prevention of teacher burnout is
important if not essential for sustaining a healthy education
environment. The presentation will try to explain the complexity of
the subject with the help of theoretical models, research findings
and through discussion with the participants. Participants will
also be encouraged to reflect upon their own patterns of stress
management with the help of self-assessment questionnaires.
Dragica Zdraveska Teaching for Change The presentation will
focus on the teaches’ perspectives and views which are also not
immune to prejudice and stereotypes and look into what influences
them. Through practical activities that can be then used in class
the teachers will be encouraged to look at intercultural competence
as something that is not acquired automatically but needs to be
learned, practiced and maintained through life.
11.30 – 12.15
Dorothy ZemachGuilty Secrets: Some Unfashionable but Effective
Teaching Techniques Trends in language teaching come and go; but
does learning itself change all that much? In this workshop, I’ll
share some love for some “nobody does that anymore” techniques that
nevertheless result in solid, efficient learning, and make an
argument for focusing on results first when evaluating new (and
old) approaches. All techniques will be demonstrated and practiced
during the workshop—come ready to participate!
Frank PrescottIt's Good to Talk: Using Negotiation in the
Classroom In this workshop participants will try out some simple,
easy to prepare activities based around the principle of
negotiation. The activities will be suitable for lower intermediate
to advanced students and will revolve around the need to negotiate
outcomes in different ways and involve both student to student
communication and student to teacher communication. Preparation
will also be discussed.
Sandra Kozorog- KošutaWaltzing With Matilda And Cultural
Heritage A centenary of the First World War is a great chance to
implement both a cross-curricular approach and our cultural
heritage into language teaching, thus making the learning process a
memorable and meaningful experience for the students.
Klavdija Krempl SlanaEmpowering Students by Using TED Talks My
presentation will focus on my personal experience with using TED
Talks in my lessons with my second-ary school students. I will
highlight the benefits of using TED Talks and show my own examples
of lessons (materials) based on different talks, such as discussion
questions, writing tasks for students (essays, articles, opinion
letters…), vocabulary work activities, students preparing their own
TED talks for their classmates and more.
9.00 – 10.00
PLENARY Mojca Belak
During the summer Mojca is a Pilgrims trainer specialising in
creativity in language teach-ing as well as in Choice Theory. For
the rest of the year she is a lecturer at the De-partment of
English, University of Ljubljana. Working with a lot of dedicated
future teachers made it possible for her to bring many of her
students to IATEFL Slovenia. She is a dedicated member of ‘the big
IATEFL’, where she is Chair of Membership and Marketing Committee.
Besides in Slovenia, she has had talks, workshops and semi-nars in
the UK, Austria, Croatia, France, Lithuania, Portugal and Serbia.
She likes danc-ing, distance running and trees.
Teachers, Students, and Total Behaviour Having at least some
basic knowledge of how to deal with people is useful not only in
educators’ private but - more importantly - professional life,
where the nature of work forces teachers to constantly manage
rela-tionships with colleagues, students, and students’ parents.
This interactive talk will explore one of the basic chapters of
Choice Theory, which states that behaviour in itself is not a
simple action, but a combination of four separate behavioural
components. Analysing behaviour can help teachers understand some
complicat-ed reactions and behavioural patterns we come across
daily.
10.15 – 11.00
Jen MacArthurTeaching Visual Literacy to Develop Critical
Thinking Skills In an age when we (and our learners) are bombarded
by more and more information each day, it’s essential that we help
our students to develop skills to see, describe, analyze, and
interpret information – both with words and through images. Let’s
move from using visual aids to teaching critical thinking through
visual literacy!
Milan MandeljcUnattached Speaking For a long time, students were
encouraged to voice their opinion that had been lost, unaccounted
for (or even unwanted) somewhere down the line of teacher-centred
pedagogical practice. They needed to be heard. As a result, their
speeches and writing are rife with Tarazanesque chest-banging: “In
my opinion, I believe...”. But what do they believe? What is this
opinion of theirs? And, actually, is it important to have it served
at all times? Does it not eventually impede a free-flowing
conversation about topics beyond “I” and “Me”? Aren’t, in fact,
personal opinions counterproductive?
Lubos MasarykDiscovery Grammar Learning In this interactive
workshop, we will go through the main principles of discovery
grammar learning and we will try out some strategies to help our
learners to achieve better results when dealing with language in
use type of tasks.
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Daniel StarskiSilent Lesson The workshop is essentially a lesson
conducted without any spoken word. The purpose being to draw
atten-tion to our communication, show the weight of words, give
some ideas to reflect upon. A ready-to-use idea of a one-time idea
that changes the dynamics within most classes.
Karen WhiteEmpower Your Students by Increasing Their Bank of
Vocabulary To be empowered to use English, our students need to
know lots of vocabulary. To acquire a word, they need to review it
many times. In this workshop, we will try out several activities to
help them to do this by using the often-neglected word lists in the
students’ books.
Milica VojvodićThe Magic of Roald Dahl in the ESL Classroom The
presenter will demonstrate various activities that use the world of
this well-known author to enrich students’ vocabulary or just to
get them interested in reading his books or playing with words and
therefore expanding their vocabulary.
Helena MiklavčičPower Games in Golding’s The Lord of the Flies I
am going to present some ideas for classroom activities when
teaching William Golding’s novel The Lord of the Flies. Since
teaching a new literary text for the Matura exam poses a challenge
to the teacher, I aim to present some ready-made activities that
will help the student analyse the work and understand the power
games on the boys’ island
Nora Tartsay NemethVirtual Reality and Augmented Reality in the
Classroom Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are
taking over the world, changing workplaces and our every-day lives.
Our learners must also be prepared to use VR and AR during their
studies and in their future jobs. In this practical workshop, the
participants will try out a number of mobile games and applications
and will discover how to use those in the language classroom.
16.00 - 16.30 Beth BaumgartnerAccommodating Students with
Special Needs Attendees will share ideas, gain strategies and work
together to adapt resources for working with students with
disabilities and special needs. A quick general overview of Special
Education and the difference between modifying, accommodating and
adapting tasks. We will discuss concerns and needs, resources, and
ideas on how we can best help our students.
Ema Ramot, Andreja VidmarEmpowered by trending news The workshop
will explore ways of empowering students by making trending news an
integral part of foreign language teaching and learning. Workshop
participants will be requested to work on a trending news story.
They will encounter various teaching techniques for vocabulary
acquisition and developing speaking skills. Implementing the use of
digital technologies will also be part of the learning process.
14.00 - 14.45
Uwe PohlPeople Worth Listening To: How to Make the Most of
Voices on the Web Supplementing the listening material in our
coursebooks with web-based talks, interviews or podcasts is no easy
task. One important consideration may be that the person speaking
makes us WANT to listen. So, what makes a person worth listening
to? Does it have to be a native speaker? How can we make the most
of listen-ing in terms of content and language? This workshop will
address such questions in a practical, exploratory way.
Danny SinghGibberish - A Powerful Communication Tool in the
Classroom Gibberish is one of the most powerful communication tools
that we have. In this session, we will do some practical exercises
that you can use immediately to help students improve intonation,
non-verbal skills and listening, while also developing
self-confidence and group dynamics in the classroom.
Maks PavlicaHow to Write About Something You Know Nothing
About
In foreign language examinations students are often required to
talk, write, think critically, and express their opinions about
topics they hardly know anything about. In this workshop, we will
consider what students can or should do when faced with such
situations. The primary solution, however, is to provide them with
various activities that broaden their horizons and encourage their
curiosity.
Beatrix PriceContinuing Professional Development for the
Twenty-first Century English Teacher This workshop will look at how
we can keep up-to-date with the rapidly moving world of
professional TEFL. It will explore different directions for CPD
activities, sharing best practice, using online opportunities and
dis-cussing benefits that teacher’s organisations offer.
Participants will also be invited to share their own practice and
reflect on the CPD provided by their professional learning
organisations.
Anita JokićPower of Women Love interdisciplinary lessons?
Believe in Power of Women? Come and learn about women who changed
his-tory, enjoy a good story, listen to great music, watch a video,
do a bit of acting, expand your vocabulary, play a quiz and
research, create newspaper covers, laugh, and have fun. So will
your students. Materials provided.
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Alan ParadižCan can? Of course he can be intriguing! Students
are presented with a comic book version of Cankar’s works with
empty speech bubbles and captions erased. Aided by the originals
they are asked to produce an English text, considering the
conventions of comic book writing or going further, employing the
rules of texting and emojis.
Marija Rus Cooperation of a Kindergarten Teacher with a
Librarian At our school we offer a very good practice of librarians
who are involved in class units and they prepare library lessons
and research work with our kindergarten students. Our young
children are encouraged to visit the library as much as possible
and they are also brought to the library with their parents.
László KatonaThe Power of Encouragement - How to Cope with the
Education of Students with Difficulties
The workshop is about the various aspects of encouraging our
students based on the principles of Adlerian individual psychology.
The major focus will be how to address students with behavioural
difficulties and how to realise the four mistaken goals of
misbehaviour as described by Adler and Dreikurs.
Urška Petrevčič Successful Language Learners and their Language
Learning Strategies What do successful language learners do when
learning foreign languages? We will talk about their strate-gies,
and even try some of them out.
Oksana VakhilMovement and Art as a Fantastic Tool to Learn
English It’s a practical workshop. We’ll discover our body, wake it
up, feel all benefits from movement and Art, create the atmosphere
that make kids think, analyse, explore, enjoy and talk!
Marjetka PfajfarEnglish Lessons Promoting Meaningful Lifestyles
English lessons can serve as a white canvas for showing students
effective techniques for a healthy lifestyle, for deal-ing with
their fears and challenging situations. We as English teachers can
give our students valuable lessons about the power of passion and
perseverance, about the power of habit, we can act as motivators
and talent hunters, art therapists, even singing instructors. The
presentation gives simple examples for small changes in the
classroom.
Andreja MiklušIt’s All About the Money, or Is It? Have you ever
wondered how students perceive the value of money or what is their
view on overspending? Do you have the feeling that today’s society
is all about consumerism and sales drive the world? I personally
wanted students to rethink their values by giving them content. In
this talk you will be presented with series of lessons that deal
with the topic in question, look at the history of money and
different perspectives on it.
Leopoldina Poli Hočevar EveVisible Thinking Routines in Thinking
Classrooms Visible Thinking Routines can be applied to every
subject and age. They are designed in a way that makes un-ravelling
complexity regular. Visible Thinking Routines are divided into
three groups:a) Routines for introducing and exploring ideas b)
Routines for synthesising and organising ideas c) Routines for
digging deeper into ideas In my lecture, various routines and
real-life examples will be presented.
17.00 – 18.00
PLENARY Sophia Mavridi
Sophia Mavridi is an EdTech & EAP lecturer, teacher trainer
and researcher. She is currently teaching in UK higher education as
well as providing in-service training for institutions and
publishers around Europe. She is the IATEFL Learning Technologies
SIG co-ordinator and her research interests lie in the increasingly
important role of digital & media literacies in language
learning.
Digital Literacies and the New Digital Divide Along with the
traditional inequalities between those who can access technology
and those who cannot, there is a new and increasingly concerning
digital divide that separates frequent but uncritical users of
tech-nology from competent and reflective ones. What uses are our
students capable of making? How digitally literate are they? What
role can this play in their language learning?
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9.00 – 9.45
PLENARYMaureen McGarvey
Maureen McGarvey has been working in ELT as a teacher, teacher
trainer, manager and online trainer for over 25 years. She is
Programme Manager eLearning at IH London. She runs a range of
blended, face to face, and online training programmes for aca-demic
managers and teachers. She wrote the management module for the MSc
in TESOL offered by Aston University and tutored this module for
several years. She has also tutored on the management module for
the MA in TESOL offered by Westminster University. She is Chair of
the IATEFL Scholarship Committee. The ABC of Teacher Development
Research-driven, continuous, self-directed, bottom up, teacher-led,
needs dependent, personalised, holistic; all these have been
applied to teacher development, and will no doubt be used
throughout this event. And so they should be; they are all
important considerations when we think of teacher development for
and with our teachers. For an academic manager, though, it can be
very difficult to contain all these aspects within any school’s TD
programme. We can end up feeling confused, ineffective and
disorganised. In this session, I’ll look at approaching CPD from a
school perspective. We will consider some ‘dos’, some ‘don’t’ and
some ‘why nots’. We will share issues and solutions among
ourselves, and try to establish what we need to do to make our
teachers’ CPD experience a positive and fruitful one.
10.00 - 11.00
Dorothy Zemach: Stories from the conference: what are we taking
awayCome for a cup of coffee and share what you are taking away
from the conference with the rest of us or see what others
learned.
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